While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung. — Jean Ingelow Copy Share Image
'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
A man--poet, prophet, or whatever be may be--readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The role of the poet is almost nothing...drearily nothing. And when he steps outside of his boots and tries to get tough… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Nations conquered and true love prevails, all encompassed in a poets tale.” — R.J. Craddock Copy Share Image
Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it. — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in… — Brian Patten Copy Share Image
“My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace">Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
“That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things.” — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
The poet complains or points out the discontent that lies at the heart of man, the individual man, and how can that… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
